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Or do it for free using GitHub pages + Jekyll.
That's pretty dang centralized. Then again, so is using a VPS, just at a different layer
That does not appear to be true of Medium blogs.
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I can just imagine it: "But you see, I'm only using medium.com because it's convenient. Other people shouldn't, but I'm just using it for now and will switch to something better, someday. I just don't have time at the moment." I don't think there's anything wrong with using Medium, but this is always where decentralization/security/open-protocols utopia seems to die: convenience and the UX. Where everyone seems to be…
Can someone fill me in here please, how did medium become the place for these sorts of posts when self hosted wordpress, ghost, Squarespace, wix and just basic HTML were created so that you can host a text blog running on a server you control from wherever you want? How did medium take hold and why?
Compare a simple article, across the years:
2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20141201191740/https://medium.co...
2019: https://medium.com/@fields/now-its-about-the-things-that-you...
Once they started achieving critical mass, like every other free-to-use webpage, they loaded it full of crap.
"[...] used against suspected terrorists, pedophiles and other serious criminals." This isn't even a slippery slope, 'suspected, other serious criminals' is subjective enough to apply at will in any instance.
There’s some juicy irony in seeing “We need decentralized communication (medium.com)”. I see no mention the the elephant in the room.
Just because you need something, doesn't mean you need to use it. Decentralized communication is a fallback in the event that centralized communication fails, in the same way that cash is a fallback in the case that credit cards fail/are blocked. I don't carry cash, and I don't use decentralized communication methods, but I still think both are very important to have.
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If you can't beat them, join 'em. At least until you can.
A technically-inclined person can beat them pretty easily (at least on the privacy/ethics front) by spending $5 on a Digital Ocean droplet and spinning up Nginx.
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Where's my sledgehammer these days...?
This looks like a throwaway answer, but it's really the only right one: the only phone that offers privacy or anonymity is one that is smashed to dust. Anyone who is concerned for their security in any way beyond, "Hey, don't tell Jim, okay?," should never, ever use their phone, and I don't see a way to fix that. The makers of phone hardware, the software providers, and the service providers are completely unworthy o…
Federation=bad:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959687
Unfortunately, any communication protocol which mathematically always reduces to ye olde beads-on-a-string with enough extra steps to hide this even from most experts makes this fundamentally impossible… — …and both IP 4 and IPv6 fall into that category, despite their very name implying otherwise:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867467
Two brief quotes from over there:
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This does not mean that we should be doing OSI. Good grief, no. …
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[22] Someone will ask, What about IPv6? It does nothing for these problems but make them worse and the problem it does solve is not a problem.
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A big thing that annoys me about buzzwords like "decentralized" is that they're not binary. Another one that's largely lost meaning is "blockchain". Decentralized is relative and depends entirely on the context. They do tend to represent ideas like anti-censorship, individualism, and (sometimes) privacy. I think it makes more sense to discuss these topics in terms of the actual implication of what you're decentralizi…
> E-mailadres is also decentralized, but so what? Most people use the same email providers so it's somewhat meaningless for SMTP itself to be decentralized. Google can still read your emails. I actually think email is almost the ideal implementation of a decentralized network. You're always going to have giants in any communication network- that's simple the reality. Email allows people to use these giants or, and cr…
I suppose you make that claim based on the assumption that any electronic long range communication system at most reduces to a network?
If so, your assumption—while applicable to our current global communications network—doesn't cover the communication systems which could (& hopefully would) already exist if the ARPAnet originators hadn't messed this up by dropping the Internet layer and renaming the Network Layer to the 'Inter'net layer. It got Telcos exactly what they needed to remain giants.
We could have decentralized communications if we ever actually use IPV6 in production. Static IP's for all, much easier to self-host. The other large issue is once you self-host, you're now liable for moderation of illegal content. I'm not sure how to fix that part.
Consider RINA and/or GNUnet instead. IPv6 just represents a bandaid.